Analysis of Façade
She sat there fighting both;
Her untold words,
And her outspoken silence
Guarded only
By a distorted conception of self-mastery
An enduring belief that estrangement is...
The sole chance to be at home
With the rhythm of every smile
She does her evasive dance;
Spinning around the holes
Drawing a picture of a whole
She knows that talented dancers never fall,
So she fell
Hitting the absence of the dancefloor
The smile on her face became a grin of the soul,
As she reached the bottom of nowhere
No mercy to implore
She's at home
That moment,
Not different from other moments,
A new "I'm fine" was born
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I sat there
Watching her escape
Escape by sheltering in place
She was telling stories
She couldn't believe
Listened to her heartbeat
While pretending ain't got one
I sat there
Examining the misty road
Between her empty words
And screaming heart
A single traveler,
I sat there
Crippled by the fear of
Discovering
Or being discovered
By an abandoned tenderness
As a wry smile sprouted up
From our barren battlefield,
A deadly attraction
Moved my feet
With every invasive step
Throughout that whole ground,
I forced a hole that didn't get me any deep
One hole,
Not different from other holes,
Swallowed me into a foreign venue
I saw her lying like a statue
As my arrival collided
With the departure of her smile,
I whispered from afar,
"Are you okay?"
Scheme | xaxbbxc dxefxxgfggc xxx Gxxxxhi Gxaxg Gxxxx xxihxxx fejjxdgx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101 0011 0011010 1010 1001001011100 10100110101 0111111 101011001 1100101 100101 10010101 11110010101 111 10010101 011010101101 11101011 110101 111 110 110011010 011111 1 111 10001 01110001 111010 11001 10101 1010111 111 01000101 010101 0101 010100 111 101011 0100 110010 11010100 1011101 1101010 010010 111 11000101 01111 110111011101 11 11001101 1010101010 11010101 11010010 10010101 110101 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,399 |
Words | 282 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 11, 4, 7, 5, 5, 7, 8 |
Lines Amount | 54 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 136 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Written on June 01, 2022
Submitted by areejeweida on December 11, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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